Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2000 including a Henry Moore etching
20 January 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Henry Moore etching.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3000 including an Eric Ravilious print
13 January 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Eric Ravilious print.
Old Masters – it’s a world of finite resources
13 January 2020Dearth of fresh works coming to the market is a challenge for Old Master auction series.
Australian works? No worries
06 January 2020Varied selection of Down Under images joins British art on offer in Salisbury saleroom.
Pair of Hodgkins high sale prices
06 January 2020Two Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) gouache watercolours painted during her artistic prime were taken to multi-estimate sums at separate UK salerooms in the same week.
Mything in action: spirited Armstrong
06 January 2020Rarely seen in public before, this signed 18in x 2ft (45 x 65cm) gouache is one of the earliest works by the British Modernist painter John Armstrong (1893-1973).
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1650 including a William Henry Hunt self-portrait
06 January 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a William Henry Hunt self-portrait.
Wyndham Lewis portrait sells in Exeter
06 January 2020A bid of £5000 from a Contemporary art gallery in London secured this post-war portrait by the writer and Vorticist painter Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957).
It’s Grimshaw down south
28 December 2019Paintings by Leeds-born artist Louis H Grimshaw (1870-1943) are often overshadowed by his better-known father, John Atkinson Grimshaw (1863-93).
Sporting scenes tracked down by eager buyers
28 December 2019Several 19th and 20th century sporting paintings from named estates provided a healthy boost at two regional salerooms.
Drawn to Paris in its prime
28 December 2019Paintings by 20th century artists who flocked to Paris during its artistic heyday were the main focus in a sale of Impressionist, Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art at south London auction house Roseberys (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).
Life’s a simple beach for Boudin
23 December 2019“I will always be a painter of beaches,” declared Eugène Boudin (1824-98) in 1864.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2250 including a David Young Cameron castle view
23 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a David Young Cameron castle view.
Dutch seascape sweeps into Tyneside
16 December 2019A ‘prominent’ northern English family consigned a seascape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-82) to Anderson & Garland (22% buyer’s premium).
Classic work kicks off new sale format
16 December 2019An international buyer paid £34,000 for a 15th century Netherlandish School oil on panel of the Virgin and St Elizabeth which was last on the market in 1955.
Engravings succeed through thick and thin
16 December 2019A pair of engravings after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-69) sold for more than six-times estimate at auction in Essex.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £900 including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print
16 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print.
Selection day - voting for quality
16 December 2019Bidders respond positively to auction combination of quality, freshness and pricing.
Robert Bevan's horse-drawn cab painting hailed by bidders at London's Mod Brit series
09 December 2019A Post-Impressionist painting of a horse-drawn hansom cab by Robert Bevan (1865-1925) was one of the headline lots at the Modern British art sales in London.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2250 including a John Piper church screen print
09 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a John Piper church screen print.